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fyin  yd  j  ’)o  r'.'i  i  j;  Hi?  li{<(i*>j(inni  I  i  r;  lupdl  Mill  lo 

To  amend  and  re-enact  sections  19,  19d,  26,  28  29,  30,  concerning  the 
procedure  necessary  to  recover  and  the  liability  on  bonds  given  by 
municipal  officers  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  their  duties, 
and  creating  an  Administrative  Board  and  defining  their 
duties,  and  to  amend  and  re-enact  sections  31,  37,  47, 

65,  63  and  64  of  an  act  approved  March  24,  1870, 

•‘An  act  providing  a  charter  for  the  City  of 

Richmond,”  as  heretofore  amended. 

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(Approved  February  9,  1912.) 

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Acts  of  Assembly,  1912,  pp.  43-51. 

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Printed  for  the  use  of  the  Council  of  the  City  of  Richmond,  the  Committees 

thereof,  the  Heads  of  Departments,  and  the  Administrative  Board. 

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Chap.  24. — An  ACT  to  amend  and  re-enact  sections  19,  19-d,  26,  28,  29, 
30,  concerning  the  procedure  necessary  to  recover  and  the  liability  on 
bonds  given  by  municipal  officers  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  their 

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duties  and  creating  an  administrative  board  and  defining  their  duties, 
and  to  amend  and  re-enact  sections  31,  37,  47,  62,  63  and  64  of  an  act 
approved  March  24,  1870,  entitled  an  act  providing  a  charter  for  the 
city  of  Richmond,  as  heretofore  amended. 

Approved  February  9,  1912. 

boibod-ohJi;  [|p  yjirjji  rj  bun  loipnoo  oi  .11  linM  P  ]  il’>i  /I  to  yir> 

4f  Be  it  enacted  by  the  general  assembly  of  Virginia,  That 

sections  nineteen,  nineteen-d,  twenty-six,  twenty-eight,  twenty- 
nine,  thirty,  thirty-one,  thirty-seven,  forty-seven,  sixty-two,  sixty- 
three  and  sixty-four  of  an  act  approved  March  twenty-fourth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy,  entitled  an  act  providing  a  charter 
for  the  city  of  Richmond  be  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read 
as  follows: 


§19.  The  Council  of  the  city  of  Richmond  shall  have  power 
to  enact  suitable  ordinances  to  secure  and  promote  the  general  wel¬ 
fare  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  city,  by  them  deemed  proper  for  the 
safety,  health,  peace,  good  order  and  morals  of  the  community,  and 
to  make  and  adopt  ordinances  and  resolutions  concerning  the  con¬ 
trol  and  management  of  the  fiscal  and  municipal  affairs  of  the  city, 
and  of  all  property,  real  and  personal,  belonging  thereto,  deemed 
proper  to  secure  the  selection  of  honest  and  competent  officers  and 
to  promote  efficiency  and  integrity  in  the  discharge  of  official  duties, 
and  may,  in  their  discretion,  create  and  maintain  a  special  fund  to 
be  known  as  the  “City  Employees  Fund,"  the  profits  of  which  shall, 
under  rules  and  regulations  to  be  established  by  them,  be  appropri¬ 
ated  to  aid  in  the  maintenance  of  persons  incapacitated  for  work 
by  reason  of  age  or  infirmity,  ayIio,  at  the  time  of  such  incapacity, 
had  been  continuously  in  the  employment  of  the  city  for  at  least 
twenty  years.  They  shall,  in  addition,  likewise  have  power  to  make 
such  ordinances,  resolutions  and  regulations  as  they  may  deem  de- 
sirable  and  suitable  to  carry  out  the  following  specified  powers 
which  are  hereby  vested  in  them. 

§19d  To  erect  within  said  city  a  prison  and  public  jail,  the 
same  to  be  of  such  size,  compartments  and  equipment  as  may  be 
necessary  for  the  safe-keeping  and  maintenance  of  all  prisoners 
ordered  or  sentenced  to  be  confined  therein,  whether  so  ordered  or 
sentenced  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth,  or  under  the  ordi¬ 
nances  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  and  to  erect  and  maintain  in  con¬ 
nection  with  such  prison,  if  the  council  shall  so  determine,  or  on 
some  other  site,  within  or  without  the  city  of  Richmond,  a  suitable 
workhouse  or  workhouses  and  a  house  or  houses  of  correction  or 
reformation  for  such  prisoners,  and  when  authorized  by  the  hust¬ 
ings  court  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  or  the  hustings  court  of  the 
city  of  Richmond,  Part  II,  to  compel  and  require  all  able-bodied 
adult  prisoners  confined  as  aforesaid  to  perform  manual  labor  in 
such  workhouse  or  houses,  and  all  youthful  prisoners  so  confined, 
as  far  as  practical,  employed  in  such  house  or  houses  of  correction 
and  reformation,  under  rules  and  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by 
the  council  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  and  approved  by  the  said 
courts. 

§26.  The  city  council  shall  fix  the  pay  of  all  officers,  but  when 


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such  pay  has  been  fixed  the  same  shall  not  be  increased  by  the  city 
council  until  the  propriety  of  such  increase  has  been  referred  to 
the  administrative  board,  considered  by  them  and  reported  upon 
to  the  council:  provided,  however,  that  the  council  may  delegate  to 
the  administrative  board  the  power  to  fix  the  pay  of  all  officers 
(whom  they  are  now  or  may  be  hereafter  authorized  to  appoint), 
and  provided  further  that  the  pay  of  all  employees  of  the  city  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  administrative  board,  and  may,  from  time  to  time, 
be  increased  or  diminished  by  said  board. 

§28.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  people  one  city  treasurer,  one 
commissioner  of  the  revenue,  and  five  members  of  a  board  to  be 
known  as  the  administrative  board,  the  terms  of  all  of  whom  shall 
be  four  years  from  the  first  day  of  January  succeeding  their  elec¬ 
tion,  and  there  shall  be  appointed  by  the  council  in  joint  session  one 
city  clerk,  one  clerk  of  council  committees,  one  sergeant  at  arms  of 
the  city  council,  one  city  attorney,  one  auditor,  one  police  justice, 
one  clerk  to  the  police  justice,  one  substitute  police  justice,  five 
members  of  the  board  of  health,  nine  members  of  the  city  school 
board,  one  clerk  to  the  city  treasurer,  one  clerk  to  the  city  auditor 
and  one  collector  of  delinquent  taxes,  and  the  council  may,  or  may 
not,  in  their  discretion,  elect  one  city  collector,’  and  each  branch  of 
the  council  shall  be  authorized  to  appoint  such  officers  and  clerks  as 
may  be  deemed  proper  for  the  regulation  of  its  proceedings  and  for 

the  convenient  transaction  of  their  business,  the  terms  of  which  ofli- 

* 

cers  and  clerks  so  to  be  appointed  shall  be  two  years  from  the  first 
day  of  July  succeeding  their  appointment,  except  the  term  of  po¬ 
lice  justice,  whose  term  shall  be  four  years. 

§20.  The  council  may  create  such  officers  and  clerkships  as  they 
may  deem  proper,  in  addition  to  those  herein  provided  for,  and 
define  their  powers  and  prescribe  their  duties,  and  require  bonds 
with  sureties  in  proper  penalties,  payable  to  the  city  by  its  corpo¬ 
rate  name,  with  condition  for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  du¬ 
ties,  but  no  officer  or  clerkship  shall  be  created  except  on  the  recom¬ 
mendation  of  the  administrative  board,  or  until  the  propriety  of 
such  appointment  has  been  referred  to  said  board,  considered  by 
them  and  reported  upon  to  the  council,  unless  such  report  has  not 
been  made  within  thirty  days  after  they  have  been  notified  of  a 
reference  to  them  by  the  council.  Any  municipal  officer  appointed 


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by  the  council  may  be  removed  from  office  at  their  pleasure.  In 
case  of  vacancies  occurring  in  any  municipal  office  filled  by  the 
council,  they  shall  elect  a  qualified  person  to  fill  such  office  during 
the  unexpired  term. 

§30.  The  parties  to  bonds  taken  in  pursuance  of  any  section  of 
t his  charter,  their  heirs,  devisees,  executors  and  administrators, 
shall  be  subject  to  the  same  proceedings  on  the  said  bonds  for  en¬ 
forcing  the  conditions  and  terms  thereof,  by  motion  or  otherwise, 
before  the  circuit  court  of  the  citv  of  Richmond,  or  any  other 
courts  held  in  the  citv  which  may  succeed  to  the  civil  common- 
law  jurisdiction  of  said  court,  that  collectors  of  the  county  levy 
and  their  securities  are  or  shall  be  subject  to  on  their  bonds,  for 
enforcing  payment  of  the  county  levies. 

30-a.  That  at  the  general  election  to  be  held  on  Tuesday  after 
the  first  Monday  in  November,  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  an. 
election  shall  be  had  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  of  Richmond 
of  five  persons  qualified  to  hold  office  under  the  Constitution  and 
laws  of  this  State,  to  constitute  an  administrative  board  for  the  city 
of  Richmond,  the  term  of  office  of  whom  shall  be  four  (1)  years, 
except  that  those  first  elected  to  office  shall  be  elected  to  serve  as 
follows:  Two  for  a  period  of  two  years,  two  for  a  period  of  three 
years,  and  one  for  a  period  of  four  years.  The  respective  length  of 
the  terms  of  each  of  the  five  members  so  elected  shall  be  determined 
by  lot  by  the  commissioners  of  election,  who  shall,  in  pursuance  of 
law,  in  the  presence  of  the  candidates  or  some  representative,  should 
they  make  known  their  desire  to  be  present,  canvass  the  vote  of  such 
election,  and  thereafter  at  the  general  election  on  Tuesday  after 
the  first  Monday  in  November  preceding  the  expiration  of  the 
terms  of  said  officers  an  election  shall  be  held  to  fill  the  said  terms 
as  aforesaid.  Each  member  of  said  board  shall  qualify  in  the 
mode  prescribed  bv  law  before  the  city  clerk,  and  shall  execute  a 
bond  with  some  trust  company  as  surety,  satisfactory  to  the  city 
attorney,  in  the  penalty  of  five  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  as  a  member  of  said  board; 
they  shall  devote  all  of  their  time  to  the  discharge  of  their  duties, 
and  shall  receive  out  of  the  .city  treasury  an  annual  salary  of  not 
less  than  four  thousand  dollars,  to  be  fixed  bv  the  citv  council, 
payable  as  the  salaries  of  other  city  officers  are  paid.  But  should 


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any  member  of  the  administrative  board  become  a  candidate  for 
any  office,  Federal,  State  or  municipal,  it  shall  ipso  facto,  vacate  his 
office  as  a  member  of  said  board,  and  whenever  any  member  of  said 
board  is  named  as  an  applicant  or  candidate,  or  as  proper  to  be 
supported  as  a  candidate  for  any  office,  or  a  proper  person  to  re¬ 
ceive  such  office,  the  mayor  or  chairman  of  said  board  shall,  or  any 
members  of  said  board  may,  notify  him  that  his  name  is  mentioned 
hi  connection  with  such  office,  and  if  said  member  does  not,  within 
ten  days  after  the  receipt  of  such  notice,  hie  with  the  board  his 
statement  in  writing  that  he  is  neither  a  candidate  nor  an  appli¬ 
cant  for  such  office,  and  likewise  certifying  that  he  will  not  accept 
nor  serve  if  elected  or  appointed  to  such  office,  the  said  board  shall 
declare  his  place  vacant.  All  vacancies  in  membership  upon  said 
board  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law  for  the 
filling  of  other  vacancies  in  municipal  offices  elective  bv  the  people. 

30-b.  The  terms  of  office  of  the  said  members  of  the  said  ad¬ 
ministrative  board  shall  commence  on  the  first  day  of  January, 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen,  and  the  members  elected  at  the 
preceding  election  as  hereinbefore  provided  shall  meet  and  proceed 
to  organize  by  electing  one  of  their  number  as  chairman  and  an¬ 
other  as  sub-chairman,  and  in  like  manner  organize  after  every 
election  of  new  members  to  the  board  for  a  full  term,  and  appoint 
such  clerk  or  clerks  and  other  employees  as  may  be  necessary  in 
their  judgment  for  the  careful  keeping  of  the  records  and  accounts 
.concerning  the  performance  of  their  duties,  and  for  the  preserva¬ 
tion  of  the  books  and  papers  in  the  office  or  offices  kept  by  them, 
and  fix  the  compensation  of  such  clerks  and  employees.  Three 
members  of  the  said  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  trans¬ 
action  of  business.  Each  member  shall  be  entitled  to  one  vote,  and 
all  votes  on  all  questions  considered  by  the  board  shall  be  re¬ 
corded  in  their  proceedings. 

The  said  board  shall  keep  an  accurate  and  careful  record  of 
all  of  their  proceedings.  In  the  absence  of  the  chairman  of  the 
board  the  sub-chairman  shall  serve  in  his  place. 

30-c.  That  all  of  the  duties  of  an  executive  or  administrative 
character  now  exercised  by  any  of  the  several  committees  of  the 
council  of  the  city  of  Richmond  under  any  law  or  ordinance  now 
in  force  are  hereby  expressly  conferred  upon  and  required  to  be 


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exclusively  exercised  by  the  said  administrative  board;  and  the 
management  and  control  of  all  streets  and  alleys,  including  side- 
walks  and  public  ways  whatsoever;  all  public  bridges,  with  their 
foundations,  approaches  and  abuttments;  all  public  squares  and 
parks;  all  public  buildings;  all  sewers,  drains  and  waterways;  all 
water  works,  gas  works,  electric  works  of  plants  now  owned  by  the 
city  or  which  may  hereafter  be  acquired  or  constructed,  together 
with  all  mains,  pipes,  wires,  poles,  conduits  and  other  works, 
structures  and  buildings  of  any  nature  whatsoever  connected  there¬ 
with;  all  public  cemeteries,  markets,  almshouses,  crematories  and  all 
property,  both  real  and  personal,  used  in  connection  with  the  said 
several  works  of  public  improvement  or  ownership,  and  generally 
the  control,  management  and  jurisdiction  over  any  and  all  de¬ 
partments  of  the  city  government,  other  than  the  police,  fire,  and 
health  departments,  and  over  all  other  public  utilities,  works  and 
improvements  belonging  to  or  controlled  by  the  city  not  herein 
specially  enumerated,  and  such  as  may  hereafter  be  acquired  by 
the  city,  and  also  the  gauging,  inspection,  measuring,  weighing  and 
metering  of  all  articles  of  commerce  or  traffic  are  hereby  expressly 
placed  under  the  management  and  control  of  the  said  administra¬ 
tive  board,  and  concerning  such  'management  and  control  the  said 
board  may  make  and  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  for  the  gov¬ 
ernment  of  all  officers  and  employees  in  charge  of  the  departments 
under  their  control,  and  enforce  a  compliance  with  the  same  by 
the  imposition  of  penalty. 

30-cl.  Appropriations,  as  far  as  practicable,  to  the  extent  of  the 
fairly  anticipated  revenues  for  each  ensuing  year,  shall  be  made 
in  lump  sums  in  the  annual  budget  ordinance,  for  the  maintenance 
of  each  department,  but  the  council  may,  from  time  to  time,  make 
additional  appropriations,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  admin¬ 
istrative  board,  or,  without  such  recommendation,  after  the  pro¬ 
posed  ordinance  or  resolution  making  the  appropriation  shall  have 
been  referred  to  the  board  for  their  consideration  and  report  in 
the  premises,  and  after  the  return  of  such  report,  or  they  shall  have 
failed  to  report  thereon  to  the  next  regular  meeting  of  either  branch 
of  the  council,  but  the  council  may,  in  any  case  of  emergency,  make 
an  appropriation  without  such  reference :  provided,  however,  that 
nothing  herein  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  curtail  or  impair  the 


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powers  and  authority  of  the  council  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  of  a 
legislative  character,  under  the  Constitution,  charter  of  the  city 
of  Richmond,  or  other  statutes  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 

30-e.  The  said  administrative  board  shall  annually,  on  or  be¬ 
fore  the  fifteenth  day  of  February,  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  thirteen,  and  thereafter  annually  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  Feb¬ 
ruary  of  each  year,  forward  to  the  mayor  a  report  of  the  business 
transacted  by  them  during  the  preceding  calendar  year,  together 
with  such  recommendations  as  they  deem  desirable  for  the  better 
management  and  improvement  of  the  business  methods  in  any  of 
the  several  departments  of  the  city  government,  and  for  the  better 
performance  of  the  duties  imposed  on  them  as  an  administrative 
board,  and  they  shall  from  time  to  time  make  such  reports  and 
recommendations  to  the  mayor  of  the  city  of  Richmond  as  they  may 
deem  desirable,  which  report  so  made,  the  mayor  shall,  together 
with  his  recommendations  concerning  such  report,  send  to  the  next 
regular  meeting  of  either  branch  of  the  council  of  the  city  of  Rich¬ 
mond,  or,  where  he  deems  it  necessary,  to  a  called  meeting  of  either 
branch,  which  he  is  hereby  expressly  authorized  to  call.  And  the 
said  administrative  board  shall,  from  time  to  time,  make  such  re¬ 
ports,  and  furnish- such  data,  to  the  council  of  the  city  of  Rich¬ 
mond,  or  to  either  branch  thereof,  as  may  be  required  of  them  by 
said  council  or  by  either  branch  thereof. 

30-f.  The  said  board  shall  have  the  exclusive  control  of  the 
letting  to  contract,  the  doing  of  all  work  for  the  city,  and  the 
furnishings  of  all  supplies  and  materials  for  the  use  of  any  de¬ 
partment  of  the  city  under  their  control,  in  accordance  with  the 
ordinances  and  resolutions  of  the  city,  but  all  purchases  for  any 
*  department  shall  always  be  made  by  the  said  board  under  proper- 
requisitions  therefor,  by  the  head  of  the  department,  under  rules 
and  regulations  established  bv  the  said  board  and  only  after  an 
ordinance  or  resolution  making  the  appropriation  therefor,  except 
in  cases  of  emergency,  where  great  loss  or  damage  to  the  city 
would  ensue,  and  in  such  cases  the  head  of  the  department  in  which 
such  emergency  exists  shall  file  with  the  board  a  certificate,  show¬ 
ing  the  nature  of  such  emergency  and  the  necessity  for  the  expendi¬ 
ture.  All  contracts  for  work  or  material  shall  only  be  let  after 
due  advertisement  and  bidding,  where  practicable,  and  the  said 


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board  shall  have  the  power  to  reject  any  and  all  bids,  and  order 
new  bidding,  or,  in  their  discretion,  let  the  contract  without  fur¬ 
ther  bidding.  And  the  said  board  is  hereby  authorized  and  re¬ 
quired  to  make  and  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  as  to  the 
advertisement,  bidding  and  letting  to  contract  of  work  to  be  done 
or  materials  to  be  furnished  for  the  city. 

30-g.  The  said  board  shall  audit  all  bills  against  the  city  for 
work  done  for  the  citv  and  for  all  materials  furnished  under  any 
contract  for  the  city  which  they  are  authorized  to  make,  and  no 
bill  for  such  work  or  supplies  shall  be  paid  by  the  auditor,  unless 
the  same  has  been  so  audited  and  certified  by  the  board  as  correct. 
*  30-h.  The  said  board  is  hereby  vested  with  authority  to  ap¬ 

point  all  officers,  other  than  those  whose  appointment  is  expressly 
provided  for  by  the  charter  of  the  city  of  Richmond,  and  also  all 
other  officers  now  authorized  to  be  appointed,  and  all  employees 
and  subordinates  now  employed  by  any  committee  of  the  council  or 
authorized  to  be  employed  under  any  ordinance  or  resolution  now 
in  force  or  hereafter  passed,  other  than  those  appointed  by  the 
board  of  police  commissioners,  board  of  fire  commissioners,  city 
school  board,  board  of  health,  city  attorney  and  the  committee  on 
finance.  The  terms  of  office  of  any  person  appointed  by  said  ad¬ 
ministrative  board  shall  be  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  is 
duly  chosen  and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  said  board, 
and  any  person  employed  shall  continue  in  such  employment  dur¬ 
ing  the  pleasure  of  said  board.  And  the  power  is  hereby  expressly 
conferred  on  the  administrative  board  to  abolish  any  office  which 
they  are  authorized  to  fill,  or  combine  the  duties  appertaining  to 
two  or  more  offices  in  one  officer,  and  designate  the  officer  to  exe¬ 
cute  the  Combined  duties,  and  the  person  whose  office  is  abolished', 
and  who  has  not  been  elected  to  perform  the  duties  that  are  dis¬ 
continued,  shall  have  no  right  to  demand  or  receive  anv  salary  or 
compensation  thereafter. 

30-i.  The  said  board  shall  have  power  to  prefer  charges  against 
any  city  officer  not  appointed  by  them,  and  forward  the  same  to 
the  mayor,  who  shall  take  such  action  thereon  as  provided  for  by 
law,  and  the  said  board  may  suspend  any  other  officer  for  a  period 
sufficient  for  charges  to  be  preferred  against  him  and  heard  by 
them,  and  in  the  meantime  direct  the  first  assistant  of  the  depart- 


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ment  to  discharge  the  duties  of  the  officer  so  suspended,  and  after 
hearing  of  charges,  which  shall  be  reduced  to  writing  and  served 
on  the  officers  so  suspended  at  least  ten  days  before  the  hearing, 
remove  such  officer  and  appoint  some  other. 

30-j.  The  city  attorney  shall  act  as  counsel  and  attorney  for 
the  administrative  board. 

§31.  The  city  auditor  shall  be  elected  by  the  council  of  the 
cit}^  of  Richmond.  He  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two 
years,  and  until  his  successor  be  elected  and  qualify,  unless  sooner 
removed.  He  shall  hold  his  office  in  such  place  as  may  be  desig¬ 
nated  and  prescribed  by  the  city  council.  He  shall  give  bond  with 
sureties  to  the  amount  of  not  less  than  thirty  thousand  dollars, 
which  shall  be  determined  by  the  city  council  before  he  enters  upon 
the  duties  of  his  office;  said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  city  attor¬ 
ney  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  citv  clerk.  The  said  auditor  shall 
open  and  keep  in  a  neat  and  methodical  manner  a  complete  set  of 
books,  in  accordance  with  such  system  as  the  council  may  adopt  on 
the  recommendation  of  the  mayor,  wherein  shall  be  stated,  among 
other  things,  the  appropriations  of  the  year  for  each  distinct  ob¬ 
ject  and  branch  of  expenditures,  and  also  the  receipts  from  each 
and  every  source  of  revenue,  so  far  as  he  can  ascertain  the  same. 
Said  books  and  all  papers,  vouchers,  contracts,  bonds,  receipts  and 
other  things  kept  in  said  office  shall  be  subject  to  the  examination 
of  the  mayor,  the  members  of  the  citv  council,  or  any  committees 
thereof. 


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§37.  The  auditor  shall,  annually,  submit  to  the  administrative 
board  during  the  month  of  January,  a  report  of  the  estimates  nec¬ 
essary,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  city 
government  during  the  succeeding  fiscal  year.  He  shall  in  said  re¬ 
port,  class  the  different  objects  and  branches  of  said  city  expendi¬ 
ture,  giving,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  the  amount  required  for  each; 
and  for  this  purpose  he  is  authorized  to  require  of  all  city  officers 
and  heads  of  departments  their  statements  of  the  condition  and 
expense  of  their  respective  departments  and  offices,  with  any  pro¬ 
posed  improvement  and  the  probable  expense  thereof,  of  contracts 
already  made  and  unfinished,  and  the  amount  of  unexpended  ap¬ 
propriations  of  the  preceding  year.  He  shall  also  in  such  report 
show  the  aggregate  income  of  the  current  fiscal  year  from  all 


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sources,  the  amount  of  liabilities  outstanding  upon  which  interest  is 
to  be  paid,  and  of  bonds  and  city  debts  payable  during  the  year, 
when  due  and  where  payable,  so  that  the  said  board  may  fully 
understand  the  money  exigencies  for  the  succeeding  fiscal  year,  a 
copy  of  which  report  and  estimates  shall  be  forwarded  to  each 
branch  of  the  city  council,  and  by  the  council  shall  be  referred  to 
the  committee  on  finance  of  the  council. 

§47.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city 
of  Richmond  one  collector  of  the  city  taxes,  who  shall  hold  his  office 
for  the  period  of  two  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  elected 
and  qualify,  unless  sooner  removed  from  office.  He  shall  give  bond, 
with  sureties,  to  the  amount  of  not  less  than  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  city  attorney  and  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  city  clerk:  provided,  however,  that  the  council  of  the 
city  of  Richmond  may,  if  they  deem  it  proper  so  to  do,  abolish  said 
office  of  collector  of  cit}^  taxes  and  confer  the  powers  and  duties 
imposed  upon  said  collector  upon  the  treasurer  of  the  city  of  Rich¬ 
mond,  under  such  restrictions,  regulations  and  conditions  by  them 
deemed  suitable  as  to  compensation  of  the  treasurer  for  the  powers 
and  duties  so  imposed,  and  suitable  to  secure  the  faithful  and  effi¬ 
cient  discharge  of  such  powers  and  duties. 

§G2.  There  shall  be  appointed  by  the  administrative  board  one 
engineer  for  the  city,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  a  period  of  two 
years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualify,  unless 
sooner  removed  from  office.  He  shall  give  bond  with  sureties  to  the 
amount  of  not  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars,  said  bond  to  be  * 
approved  b}^  the  city  attorney  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk. 

§63.  The  said  engineer  shall  have  power  to  appoint,  with  the 
approval  of  the  administrative  board,  such  number  of  assistants 
and  clerks  as  may  be  authorized  by  ordinance,  with  power  in  the 
administrative  board  to  reduce  the  number;  but  such  assistants  or 
clerks  may  be  removed  at  any  time  by  said  engineer  or  by  said 
board. 

§64.  The  said  engineer  shall,  subject  to  the  control  of  the  ad¬ 
ministrative  board,  be  the  general  superintendent  of  the  streets,  cul¬ 
verts,  public  buildings  and  all  public  improvements.  He  shall 
make  such  surveys,  reports,  drawings,  plans,  specifications  and  esti¬ 
mates  needed  in  any  department  of  the  city  government,  and  per- 


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form  such  other  duties  as  the  administrative  board  may  require  of 
him,  and  do,  in  relation  thereto,  whatever  else  they  may  direct 
concerning  the  same.  All  surveys  or  other  acts,  which  may  be 
made  or  done  by  said  engineer,  shall  be  as  valid  and  effectual  as 
if  the  same  were  done  by  a  surveyor  of  a  county,  and  any  map  or 
plan  of  the  city,  or  a  part  thereof  hoav  on  file  in  his  office,  or  here¬ 
after  made  and  filed  therein,  made  in  pursuance  of  any  ordinance 
of  the  city  or  statute  of  the  State,  and  especially  the  map  ap¬ 
proved  by  resolution  of  the  council  of  June  twenty-fourth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-two  (1872)  or  a  copy  of  such  map,  shall 
be  prima  facie  evidence  in  the  courts  of  the  Commonwealth  of  the 
boundaries  and  lines  of  the  streets,  alleys  and  other  public  places  of 
the  city  shown  thereon.  He  shall  keep  his  office  in  such  place  as 
the  city  council  may  direct,  and  shall  keep  therein  all  maps,  draw¬ 
ings  and  papers  pertaining  to  his  office.  He  shall  keep  a  record  of 
all  his  proceedings,  and  a  set  of  books  in  which  shall  be  entered, 
under  appropriate  heads,  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  his  de¬ 
partment;  and  all  books  and  papers  of -his  office  shall  be  open  at 
all  times  to  the  inspection  of  the  mayor,  the  administrative  board, 
to  t lie  members  of  the  city  council,  or  to  any  committee  or  com¬ 
mittees  thereof:  provided,  however,  that  the  administrative  board 
may  assign  the  powers  and  duties  of  said  engineer  as  general  su¬ 
perintendent  of  public  buildings,  or  any  of  them,  and  the  supervi¬ 
sion  and  control  of  the  same  to  some  other  officer,  under  such  regu¬ 
lations  as  they  may  prescribe. 

A  A  2.  There  being  an  emergency  by  reason  of  the  need  of  the 
proposed  amendments  to  the  charter  of  the  city  of  Richmond 
creating  certain  offices  for  the  city  of  Richmond  and  providing  for 
^the  election  by  the  people  of  qualified  persons  to  fill  the  same,  this 
act  shall  be  in  force  from  its  passage. 


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